#Charles McCullough III

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GROVER CLEVELAND •Grover Cleveland: A Study In Courage by Allan Nevins (BOOK) •An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers (BOOK | AUDIO) •A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BENJAMIN HARRISON •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman, 1865-1888 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President, 1889-1893 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK)

WILLIAM McKINLEY •In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (BOOK) •President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE) •William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT •The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Edmund Morris Trilogy •The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •T.R.: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT •The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •William Howard Taft: An Intimate History by Judith Icke Anderson (BOOK) •Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court by Lewis L. Gould (BOOK | KINDLE)

WOODROW WILSON •Wilson by A. Scott Berg (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover (BOOK) •The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WARREN G. HARDING •The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell (BOOK) •The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren G. Harding by Andrew Sinclair (BOOK) •1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles L. Mee Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE)

CALVIN COOLIDGE •Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election by Garland S. Tucker III (BOOK | KINDLE)

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Led by Dr. Garry Nolan, Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine and sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish, Sol Foundation is assembling teams of world-class academics and government experts – including former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG) I. Charles McCullough III serving as legal counsel – to conduct research and provide policy expertise around UAP, as well as help set the agenda for the wider study of UAP.

As the revelation of the reality of UAP is likely to be world-changing in every sense of the term, Sol Foundation’s mission is to be a leading source of research on the issue, while providing the most informed and insightful policy recommendations to governments. The Foundation will encourage greater government transparency, drive collaborative sharing and review of academic insight, and champion methodical, scientifically-robust assessment and analysis.

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"ESCAPING MANIAC NEARLY STRANGLES ASYLUM ATTENDANT," Toronto Globe. October 5, 1933. Page 3. --- Timely Passing of Telegraph Boy Averts Tragedy at London ---- MONSIGNOR AYLWARD ILL --- (Staff Correspondence of The Globe.) London, Ont., Oct. 4. - Overcome by an escaping patient he had followed and attempted to subdue, William Wright, an attendant at the Ontario Hospital for the Insane, was almost strangled by the maniac this morning, and his life was probably saved by the timely passing of Arthur Blakey, a C.P.R. telegraph messenger, who saw the struggle and called for help. Blakey, while riding on Dundas Street East, at the asylum sideroad, saw two men scuffling, as he at first thought, in fun. But when Blakey saw one of the men fall to the ground and the other jump on him, he began to take serious notice. Next he saw the upper man pull a handkerchief from his pocket, and, slipping it around the neck of the other begin to strangle his victim.

Just at the moment two other men appeared running across a field, and Blakey called to them. The maniac thereupon released his victim and fled, pursued by the boy on the bicycle and the two attendants. The patient was soon overtaken, but, pulling a knife, he tried to slash his throat, but inflicted only a slight wound. While being taken back to the asylum, he complained that he was homesick and was trying to return to his home. He is a young and powerful man, and escaped while taking his morning exercise by jumping over a fence. Wright was driven to his home in a passing truck and soon recovered from the attack. The patient has hitherto been regarded as harmless.

Admits Robberies. Charged with a series of robberies in the London district during the past few months, Charles Woods of Clandeboye, arraigned in County Court today, pleaded guilty. He admitted robbing the C.N.R. stations in Forest and Exeter, the Harry Lankin service station in Lucan, and R. M. Bowman's general store in Denfield. In three cases, safes weighing 200 pounds or more were carried off. Roy Woods, a brother of Charles; Albert Fink of London, and Casey Blake of Sarnia were jointly charged with him in the robberies. They pleaded not guilty a were remanded until Provincial Officer Lankin, who is to give evidence, is relieved of strike duty at Stratford. It is expected the case will be tried tomorrow.

Charged With Receiving. Edgar Bedgwood of Waterloo Street, arrested by Detective-Sergeant William McCullough and Detective Gavin Monahan, charged with knowingly receiving goods alleged to have been stolen from a C.P.R. freight train, was arraigned in city Police Court to- day and remanded until Oct. 12. In the meantime the police are investigating his record. They informed the court they had recovered in the prisoner's home thirty-nine pairs of ladies' bloomers, nineteen bottles of mucilage, three tins of coffee and other goods said to have been stolen from a manifest train between Lon- don and Ingersoll. Bedgwood told the police he found the goods while walking along the tracks one morning.

Monsignor Aylward Seriously III. Brought to London in an ambulance a few days ago, Right Rev. Monsignor J. T. Aylward, rector of Our Lady of Mercy Church, in Sarnia, is very ill in St. Joseph's Hospital tonight, and fears for his recovery are held. He was rector of St. Peter's Cathedral here for many years.

Police Mistaken for Freshmen. Four plainclothes officers, riding in a scout car in the north end last night, were mistaken by Western University freshmen for belligerent and antagonistic "sophs" and the "freshies" pelted the inoffensive police with overripe tomatoes. The officers promptly accepted apologies and the incident was closed.

Today complaint was lodged with Acting Mayor Gordon Drake by Alderman L. S. Holmes, M.D., that two of his patients had been pelted with tomatoes by the students, and a strong protest was entered.

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Sol Foundation’s Videos In Chronological Order I'm kinda of obsessed with watching things in the right chronological order, whenever possible. So for the few people who feel like me, I put the Sol Foundation’s videos in the seemingly correct chronological order. Most people might have already watched them already, so this post might be a little too late, but figured a few people might miss the chronological order to view these videos in, so this is for them.

Firstly, I placed them all in chronological order as part of my own [“UFO Timeline playlist”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kC2TnG0j0&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=784&ab_channel=TheSolFoundation)[ here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kC2TnG0j0&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=784&ab_channel=TheSolFoundation) (*Starts with Sol Foundation Intro Video and goes from video 784 to 801*)

If you don’t want to watch them as part of that playlist, you can also just view the order I placed them in below.v=rvV9AHvEyHw&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=791)

* 16:00 – 16:35

* Talk with **Peter Skafish, Ph.D.** – Conceptualizing Nonhuman Intelligence: Anthropomorphism and Ontology [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLz5QYjJZA&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=792&t=15s)

* 17:00-18:00 ***(I assume this is when the videos of Hal Puthoff and Larry Maguire was filmed)***

* Roundtable led by **Leslie Kean**, alongside **Luis Elizondo, Hal Puthoff** [***(Click here to watch video)***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9azht9pCDwg&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=793)**, CEO, Earthtech, and Larry Maguire** [***(Click here to watch video)***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3BYRuGMAHE&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=794) **, Member of Parliament, Canada****Saturday 18th November**

* 9:00-9:15

* Introduction with **Garry Nolan, Ph.D. and Peter Skafish, Ph.D.**

* 9:15-9:45

* Talk with **Timothy Gallaudet, Ph.D.** – The U.S. Government’s UAP Apathy is Another Case of Its Massively Misplaced Priorities [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq7of1A7F_E&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=795)

* 9:45-10:15

* Talk with **Jairus Victor Grove, Ph.D. -** Crowded Skies: Atmospheric and Orbital Threat Reduction in an Age of Uncertainty [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odTMAzkdPKw&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=795&ab_channel=TheSolFoundation)

* 10:15-10:45

* Talk with **Karl Nell** – The Schumer Amendment and Controlled Disclosure [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1QCFtod6i8&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=797)

* 10:45-11:05

* Fraught Relationships Panel

* 11:30-12:00

* Talk with **Jonathan Berte** – The European Union and Disclosure: Government, Industry, and UAP Research

* 12:00-12:30

* Talk with **Christopher Mellon** [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifLdoJYamQ&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=798)

* 13:30 – 14:30

* A Fireside Conversation with **Charles McCullough III**

* 14:45-15:15

* Talk with **Iya Whitley, Ph.D.** – Observation is Data: Trusting and Learning from Pilots [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR09GHQ5AwA&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=799)

* 15:15 – 16:15

* Talk with **Paul Thigpen, Ph.D. -** They Are All God’s Children: Insights from Catholic Theology on UAP and Nonhuman Intelligence [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlMQf0ydV20&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=800)

* 16:15 – 16:45

* Talk with **Jeff Kripal, Ph.D.** – “To Shoot Down Souls”: Some Paradoxical Thoughts on the UFO Phenomenon from a Historian of Religions [***(Click here to watch*** presentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lngv8bUkVpQ&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=801)

* 16:45-17:15

Afternoon speakers panel

* 17:15-17:45

Guest speaker – David Grusch [***(Click here to watch video)***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kNIzV5qSE&list=PLIQnPT3IDXOHAnA1RQ48ArepKBBDeo-hB&index=802)

The Sol foundation channel can be found here [https://www.youtube.com/@\_SolFoundation](https://www.youtube.com/@_solfoundation)

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But the former inspector general, with responsibility for the 17 intelligence agencies, said the executive who recommended him to the Obama administration for the job – then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper – was also disturbed by the independent Clinton email findings.

“[Clapper] said, ‘This is extremely reckless.’ And he mentioned something about -- the campaign … will have heartburn about that,” McCullough said.

He said Clapper's Clinton email comments came during an in-person meeting about a year before the presidential election – in late December 2015 or early 2016. “[Clapper] was as off-put as the rest of us were.”

After the Clapper meeting, McCullough said his team was marginalized. “I was told by senior officials to keep [Clapper] out of it,” he said, while acknowledging he tried to keep his boss in the loop.

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Obama-Appointed Federal Inspector Threatened By Clinton Campaign Over Email Investigation [Video]

Obama-Appointed Federal Inspector Threatened By Clinton Campaign Over Email Investigation

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An Obama appointed government watchdog central to the Hillary Clinton email investigation says that he, his family and his office faced an ‘intense backlash‘ from Clinton allies, who threatened him over findings that Clinton mishandled classified information.

Former Inspector General…

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Legal Team Says It Represents a Second Whistle-Blower https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/us/politics/second-whistleblower-trump-ukraine.html

Legal Team Says It Represents a Second Whistle-Blower Over Trump and Ukraine

By Annie Karni and Nicholas Fandos |

Published Oct. 6, 2019 Updated 4:22 PM ET | New York Times | Posted October 6, 2019 6:20 PM ET |

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the whistle-blower whose complaint set off an impeachment inquiry of President Trump said Sunday that the same legal team was now representing a second whistle-blower, an intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the president’s interactions with Ukraine.

The new whistle-blower “made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against,” Mark S. Zaid, one of the lawyers, said on Twitter.

Mr. Zaid confirmed a report by the ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on his show, “This Week,” which said the new whistle-blower had already been interviewed by the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office, but had not yet communicated with any congressional committees.

Another member of the legal team confirmed on Twitter that the firm was now representing “multiple whistleblowers” but declined to comment further.

It was not clear if the new whistle-blower would file a formal complaint. Mr. Zaid said the second whistle-blower’s act of coming forward to the inspector general had already secured whistle-blower protections.

The New York Times reported on Friday that an intelligence official with more direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s dealing with Ukraine than the first whistle-blower, and who had grown alarmed by the president’s behavior, was weighing whether to come forward. The second official was among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower, one of the people briefed on the matter said.

The new whistle-blower matches the description of the official that The Times reported on last week. Mr. Zaid said he did not know whether the individual was the same person.

The first whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to the National Security Council, filed a complaint in August outlining how Mr. Trump used his power to push Ukraine to investigate his domestic political rivals.

Mr. Trump has tried to undermine the credibility of the first whistle-blower, whose identity is not publicly known, by saying that the individual was trading on secondhand information. On Sunday, White House officials said information from a second whistle-blower would make no difference.

“It doesn’t matter how many people decide to call themselves whistle-blowers about the same telephone call — a call the president already made public — it doesn’t change the fact that he has done nothing wrong,” said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.

Anticipating the news, Mr. Trump pre-emptively went on the attack on Saturday night.

“The first so-called second hand information ‘Whistleblower’ got my phone conversation almost completely wrong, so now word is they are going to the bench and another ‘Whistleblower’ is coming in from the Deep State, also with second hand info,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday, referring to his now-infamous July 25 phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in which he leaned on Mr. Zelensky to investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and current presidential candidate, as well as his son Hunter Biden. “Keep them coming!”

Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, framed the news of the new whistle-blower on Sunday as a political hit on the president. “SURPRISE Democrat lawyer has other secret sources,” Mr. Giuliani wrote on Twitter. He added that the bottom line was that there was “no quid pro quo” attached to Mr. Trump’s pressure on Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rivals, and called the story an “ORCHESTRATED DEM CAMPAIGN LIKE KAVANAUGH,” referring to the sexual misconduct allegations against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Mr. Zaid works for Compass Rose Legal Group, a law firm that specializes in representing whistle-blowers. He is part of the legal team that is now representing both individuals who have come forward. The team also includes Andrew P. Bakaj, the lead lawyer, and I. Charles McCullough III.

“I can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Community Inspector General,” Mr. Bakaj said on Twitter. “No further comment at this time.”

Democrats who are building the impeachment case against Mr. Trump sought to paint the accumulation of evidence against him as inevitable on Sunday. Meanwhile, the White House had few allies on the Sunday show circuit who strongly defended the president’s actions.

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the second-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel had not yet heard from a second whistle-blower as of Sunday morning. But he hastened to argue that the speed with which details of the case were becoming public was itself a strong sign of wrongdoing.

“We’re sort of sitting here watching the information flow out of the White House, damning information, facts that are undisputed,” Mr. Himes said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “What’s happening is that people around the president, professionals, who are in the Oval Office, who are in the Situation Room, are watching what is happening and are finally saying, ‘my God, this cannot happen anymore,’ and they are coming forward.”

The intelligence panel is still working with the first whistle-blower and the director of national intelligence to arrange a private interview. With information evolving unusually quickly, few senior congressional Republicans or White House officials have been willing to step out publicly to defend Mr. Trump’s actions. The White House, which has been riven internally about how to handle impeachment proceedings, with no one clearly in charge, did not have any senior officials making the case to defend Mr. Trump on Sunday.

And those congressional allies who did make public comments on Sunday either focused on attacking Democrats’ handling of the case or said they would reserve judgment until they saw more facts.

Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri and a key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was interested to learn more about the new whistle-blower and offered no defense of Mr. Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. Instead, he said he first wanted to see the results of the Senate’s bipartisan investigation of the matter before making a judgment.

“You have to assume if it is essentially a partisan vote in the House, that that sets the stage for likely the same kind of vote in the Senate,” Mr. Blunt said on CBS. “But let’s see what the facts are.”

Others were more squarely behind the president.

Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that he was “not at all” concerned by the emergence of another whistle-blower because he had already seen a transcript of Mr. Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president that, in his view, was not problematic.

On ABC’s “This Week,” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast defenders, said the president was merely interested in rooting out legitimate accusations of corruption and that Democrats were unfairly vilifying him for it.

But pressed a half-dozen times to say where he approved of Mr. Trump’s public remarks this week calling on China to investigate the Bidens, Mr. Jordan would not answer.

“I think he has you guys all spun up,” he said, repeating a line frequently used by Republicans in recent days. “I don’t think he really meant go investigate. Do you think China is really going to investigate?”

Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said in a heated exchange on “Meet the Press” that Mr. Trump had “vehemently, angrily denied” to him withholding aid for Ukraine in exchange for investigating his political rivals.

“Unlike the narrative of the press that President Trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent, what he wants is an accounting of what happened in 2016,” Mr. Johnson said.

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John and Abigaile Adams | Article:

The Declaration of Independence

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some did not vote, so that Congress might "speak with one voice." The Declaration was necessary for concrete as well as symbolic reasons: the colonies needed foreign aid to keep fighting, but to obtain foreign aid it had to seek more than reconciliation with Britain, it had to proclaim itself a nation.

Courtesy: Library of Congress

Lost Opportunity

Thomas Jefferson became the author of the Declaration when John Adams declined, thinking it soon would be forgotten. "After all," writes biographer David McCullough, "who remembered the Declaration of Rights and Grievances that he had authored for the initial Congress of 1774"?

The Sentiments of a Nation

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time, including Virginia's Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason, and a 1774 pamphlet by Pennsylvanian James Wilson. All of these men drew liberally from the writings of philosopher John Locke. The Declaration's second paragraph, however, crystallized perfectly not only what had been accomplished over months of indecision and war, but what yet remained to be done:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The Crimes of a King

Jefferson did harness the revolutionary spirit on paper, but also included statements with which Congress was uncomfortable. Nearly a quarter of the document was cut during editing. Although the paragraphs that remain espouse the ideals that spawned the Revolutionary War, much of the document comprised a litany of grievances against King George III. Among George's crimes: the "horrors of the human slave trade." The irony wasn't lost on Adams that the Declaration of Independence, which trumpeted freedom for all men, was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from both North and South, either currently or had owned slaves, while Washington, who commanded America's army, owned over 100.) Nor did the British let this contradiction go unnoticed. Queried Samuel Johnson: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of Negroes?"

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Date Discrepancy

On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thomson, the secretary, signed the Declaration. Then it went to the printer. The other delegates would sign on August 2, a date that faded not only from public memory, but from that of Adams and Jefferson also. As old men, they both insisted the signing — an act of treason against Great Britain — had occurred on the fourth of July.

Independence Declared

Following the Declaration's publication in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, celebrations swept the nation. In New York, writes historian Benson Bobrick: "... Washington had the army brigades drawn up at six p.m. to hear 'the United Colonies of America' declared Free and Independent States." Later that day, a jubilant crowd toppled the gargantuan statue of King George III that towered over Broadway. It would eventually be melted down for its metal and turned into 42,000 cartridges fired by the American army. Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war.

History Made

Wrote New Jersey delegate Richard Stockton, "The man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's hero. Adams' prediction to Abigail of the importance of the Declaration would prove true, if two days off. "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. ..." The echoes of independence would continue to be heard throughout the lives of both Adams and Jefferson, until their deaths on the same day, July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.

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Obama-Appointed Federal Inspector Threatened By Clinton Campaign Over Email Investigation

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An Obama appointed government watchdog central to the Hillary Clinton email investigation says that he, his family and his office faced an ‘intense backlash‘ from Clinton allies, who threatened him over findings that Clinton mishandled classified information.

Former Inspector General Charles McCullough III told Fox News Chief Intel correspondent…

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BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV January 29, 2019 Updated: February 11, 2019 Share Congressional investigators have gathered enough evidence to suggest that the FBI, under the Obama administration, ignored a major lead in the Clinton-email probe, according to transcripts of closed-door testimonies of several current and former bureau officials. The office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General informed the FBI in 2015 that a forensic review of Hillary Clinton’s emails unearthed anomalies in the metadata of the messages. The evidence in the metadata suggested that a copy of every email Hillary Clinton sent during her tenure as the secretary of state was forwarded to a foreign third party. The existence of the lead was first revealed during the public testimony of Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz in June last year. Horowitz acknowledged the existence of the specific lead and said he spoke about it to Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Charles McCullough. Yet, despite the alarming nature of the referral, Horowitz’s 568-page report on the FBI’s handling the Clinton-email investigation made no mention of the lead or how the bureau handled it. The omission caught the attention of Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who pressed Horowitz for an explanation. Horowitz said he would get back to the committee with answers. It’s unclear if Horowitz ever followed up on that promise. Meadows went on to question several current and former FBI officials about the lead, including Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bill Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, John Giacolone, and James Comey. In all of the interviews, transcripts of which were reviewed for this article, the officials claimed to remember nothing about the specific referral from the ICIG, suggesting that the lead was either suppressed or ignored by investigators. During questioning, Meadows repeatedly suggested that Strzok, the former FBI official best known for being fired from the agency last year for his anti-Trump text messages, ignored the lead and never followed up with the ICIG regarding the referral. The bureau also didn’t interview anyone from the ICIG’s office, including Frank Rucker, the investigator who initially briefed the FBI team about the anomalies, according to the transcripts. An official from the ICIG communications office didn’t respond to repeated requests for an interview with Rucker. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) listens to testimony from Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok during a joint hearing of his committee and the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Meadows summed up what lawmakers have learned about the ICIG lead while questioning Comey on Dec. 17 last year. Comey served as the director of the FBI during the Clinton-email probe. He was one of the last witnesses interviewed by lawmakers shortly before the House judiciary and oversight committees wrapped up their review of actions taken and not taken by the FBI and the DOJ during the 2016 presidential election. “Well, just to be clear, Mr. McCullough has indicated to Members of Congress that there was zero followup,” Meadows told Comey. “There are allegations they believe were largely ignored by the FBI.” When contacted for a comment about the allegations, McCullough, now a partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group, said that he didn’t expect the FBI to follow up on the referral with his office. McCullough also said he never alleged that the FBI ignored any leads. “It was the FBI’s investigation. The flow of information was purposely one way from the ICIG to the FBI,” McCullough said Jan. 29. “I was in no way overseeing what the bureau was doing, and I didn’t expect them to inform me of results of their investigation.” “Having spent 10 years of my life as an FBI special agent, I presumed they would take appropriate action with respect to whatever information I gave them. I did not follow up with them to ensure that was the case,” McCullough added. The FBI had no comment on the allegations. Strzok was one of four officials briefed on the anomalies. He was transferred to FBI headquarters from the field office in Washington to work on the Clinton-email probe around two months after it was opened and, eventually, the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. According to Meadows, Strzok called the ICIG office 10 minutes after Comey exonerated Clinton in July 2016 and asked to close out the inspector general’s referral. The ICIG referred the Clinton-email case to the FBI on July 6, 2015, pursuant to the Intelligence Authorization Act, which requires agencies to advise the FBI “immediately of any information, regardless of its origin, which indicates that classified information is being, or may have been, disclosed in an unauthorized manner to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power,” according to the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the handling of the email case. The bureau officially opened the investigation on July 10, 2015. Meadows confronted Strzok about the metadata anomalies in Clinton’s emails during a closed-door interview on June 27 last year. “Sir, I am — I do not recall a meeting where the IC IG made any reference to changes in the metadata,” Strzok said. “What I can tell you, Congressman, is that our technical experts, any allegation of intrusion, any review of metadata that might be indicative of an act, was pursued by our technical folks, and I am very confident that they did that thoroughly and well. I am certainly unaware of anything that we did not pursue or had not pursued.” McCullough told The Epoch Times that he did interact with the bureau after the initial meeting when he referred the Clinton-email case. He tasked Rucker to handle day-to-day interactions with the bureau. Rucker would go on to pass information to the FBI in several tranches. It’s unclear whether the lead on metadata anomalies was passed along during the initial referral or as part of a separate meeting. According to a version of events put forth by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) during Strzok’s public testimony in June last year, Rucker passed on the referral during a meeting with four FBI officials. Jeanette McMillian, the legal counsel for the ICIG, also attended the meeting, according to Gohmert. According to the transcripts, three of the four FBI officials briefed by the ICIG were Strzok, then-Executive Assistant Director John Giacalone, and then-Section Chief Dean Chappell. The identity of the fourth official remains unclear. Moffa, who was a lead analyst on the Clinton-email probe, told lawmakers during a closed-door interview on Aug. 24 last year that he met the ICIG together with Counterespionage Section Chief Charles Kable. Moffa said he and Kable met the ICIG two or three times during the early days of the investigation. I. Charles McCullough III, inspector general of the intelligence community, testifies during a hearing before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill on July 7, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Lawmakers asked at least two of the four present at the meeting, Strzok and Giacalone, about their interactions with the ICIG. Both claim to not remember being told anything about anomalies in the metadata of Clinton’s emails and the possibility that a copy of every message was sent to a foreign actor. Giacalone told lawmakers he remembers a specific country of concern being discussed during either a face-to-face meeting or other communication. Try The Epoch Times Newspaper for Only $1 Start My $1 Month Trial China President Donald Trump suggested in August last year that Clinton’s emails were obtained by China. “Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!” he said. The president was likely responding to a report released days earlier by the Daily Caller, citing two anonymous sources, claiming that a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington area obtained nearly all of Clinton’s emails. The firm received Clinton’s emails in real time using a code embedded on a private, unauthorized email server she used for government work while she was secretary of state, the report alleged. Fox News confirmed the Daily Caller report, citing two anonymous sources. It isn’t clear if the Fox sources are different from those used by the Daily Caller. Kable and Chappell served as section chiefs at the bureau’s counterintelligence division alongside Strzok during the early days of the Clinton-email investigation. Both Kable and Chappell have expertise in Chinese espionage, a factor which, if the media reports about China are true, may have initially contributed to their selection for the Clinton-email team. Kable led investigations against “known and suspected Chinese intelligence officers in the U.S.” for a year and five months starting in 2009, according to an FBI promotion notice and his LinkedIn profile. While little is known about Chappell’s time at the FBI, he was cited among experts on Chinese espionage in a Fox News article published two weeks after the start of the Clinton-email probe. Executive Assistant Director Randall Coleman, the seniormost official overseeing the email probe, is also cited in the article, as well as the related FBI press release. Despite playing a prominent role in the investigation, Kable’s name isn’t mentioned in Horowitz’s otherwise voluminous and exhaustive report (pdf) on the handling of the Clinton-email investigation. Chappell, who met the ICIG and worked in counterespionage, also isn’t mentioned in the report. The FBI wouldn’t confirm whether Chappell still works for the bureau. A Whole New Team With the exception of Comey, every person in the chain of command above Strzok was replaced at different points during the Clinton-email investigation. On Dec. 9, 2015, Comey moved Kable out of FBI headquarters to the Washington field office, ending his term on the Clinton-email probe. Two weeks after Kable’s departure, Comey appointed Bill Priestap to serve as assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, replacing Randall Coleman, who held the same position until Dec. 21, 2015. A month later, Comey appointed Andrew McCabe to replace Mark Giuliano as deputy director, and the following month, Comey appointed Michael Steinbach to replace Giacalone as the executive assistant director for the National Security Branch. If Kable was the fourth person present at the meeting when Rucker told FBI about the email metadata anomalies, Strzok would be the only official who learned of the ICIG lead and remained on the Clinton-email investigation until it was concluded. Priestap, who arrived six months after the ICIG anomaly referral, told lawmakers on June 5 last year that he didn’t know Frank Rucker, the ICIG investigator, and that he was never informed of the referral on the anomalies in the metadata in Clinton’s emails. Strzok reported to Priestap. Bill Priestap, assistant director of the counterintelligence division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Capitol Hill on July 26, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Meadows: Is this the first time that you’ve ever heard that there might have been metadata on the Hillary Rodham Clinton server that showed anomalies? Priestap: Yes. I do not recall being told that there were — and I say anomalies �� In an exchange that followed, Priestap clarified his answer, noting that if he was told of anomalies he would have remembered. Meadows: So you’re the head of counterintelligence — Priestap: Yes. Meadows: — and I’m a Member from North Carolina, and you’re saying that I have better intel than you do? I mean, is this the first time truly that you’re hearing that? I want to give you time to reflect on your conversations. Priestap: Sir, there were — there was a tremendous amount of work done by the FBI in trying to determine whether a foreign service — your words — had penetrated Mrs. Clinton’s server, a tremendous amount of work. Meadows: And I think your comment was there was no evidence. Priestap: I am not aware of any evidence that demonstrated that. I’m also not aware of any evidence that my team or anybody reporting to me on this had advised me that there were anomalies that couldn’t be accounted for. I don’t recall that. I would like to think that had I been told that, that would have stuck in my mind, because, obviously, from a counterintelligence perspective, there’s the mishandling end of this and then there’s the, did the foreign adversary get access? Those were equally important. Lisa Page, an FBI attorney and Strzok’s mistress, told lawmakers on July 16 last year that it was “completely baffling” to learn of the ICIG anomalies referral during Strzok’s testimony in 2017, almost a year after the Clinton-email probe concluded. “[My] understanding is that the IC IG did refer the existence of the server to the FBI, but that was because of the existence of classified information on that server, not because of any anomalous activity, not because of potential intrusion activity,” Page told Congress on July 16 last year, according to a transcript. Page made the statement during a round of questions with Meadows in which the representative revealed that the ICIG informed the FBI of evidence of intrusion, yet the referral appears to have never reached the broader FBI team working the investigation. Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page arrives to testify before a House Judiciary Committee closed-door meeting on July 13, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Meadows: So what you’re telling me, it would surprise you to know today that, if there were anomalies, that the inspector general’s forensic team found those before it was referred to the FBI? Page: That’s correct. I’m not sure — Meadows: Would that — if that is indeed the fact, would that be a major concern to you? Page: It would be a concern that we didn’t know that or that that wasn’t part of what they told us when they made the referral, but less so, sir, honestly because our forensic investigators are so phenomenal that, notwithstanding whatever the IC IG may or may not have conveyed, I know we looked extensively at this question. Because that was a serious question. And to the extent that a foreign government or even a criminal outlet had had access to Secretary Clinton’s private email server, that would have been something we cared very much about. And it’s my understanding that there was no evidence that would have supported that kind of conclusion. Page’s answer is significant because she acknowledged the seriousness of the lead and the fact that she was never made aware of the evidence. Comey likewise told lawmakers he didn’t know Rucker. Asked on Dec. 17 last year if he would be surprised if Rucker was never interviewed during the investigation, Comey said, “I don’t have a reaction.” Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey arrives at the Rayburn House Office Building to testify to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 17, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Comey closed out the Clinton-email investigation with an unprecedented public statement on July 5, 2016, saying that the FBI couldn’t find evidence that Clinton’s emails were hacked by a “hostile actor,” but “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.” Comey’s statement didn’t mention the evidence of the metadata anomalies produced by the ICIG. Comey chose the term “hostile actor” for the statement, a phrase which may or may not include China or other sophisticated adversaries who are not publicly hostile toward the U.S. Among the thousands of Clinton emails reviewed, the bureau found eight emails containing top-secret information and 37 emails containing secret information, and other classified material. Comey ultimately concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against Clinton or her associates. 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FBI che giấu việc tin tặc Trung Quốc tiếp cận email của bà Clinton?

Vào ngày 22/7/2015, một cuộc họp diễn ra giữa FBI và Tổng Thanh tra Cộng đồng Tình báo (ICIG) về việc xử lý sai thông tin được xếp loại mật của bà Hillary Clinton, trong khi bà đang là Ngoại trưởng.

Không rõ điều gì đã được thảo luận cụ thể trong cuộc họp, và FBI thậm chí từ chối xác nhận cuộc họp đã diễn ra. Nhưng tầm quan trọng của nó gần đây đã được chỉ ra.

Trong số hàng ngàn trang tài liệu chính thức liên quan đến cuộc điều tra của FBI về bà Clinton, cuộc họp chỉ được đề cập một lần trong một tài liệu được biên soạn lại rất nhiều, xác nhận rằng cuộc họp đã diễn ra.

Cuộc họp sẽ không được ai chú �� nếu không có một số người gần đây đã đưa ra tuyên bố có thể giải thích lý do tại sao nó diễn ra.

Tin tặc Trung Quốc

Nghị sỹ Louie Gohmert (đảng Cộng hòa, bang Texas), cùng nhiều nguồn tin giấu tên đã cáo buộc máy chủ riêng của bà Clinton, được đã sử dụng cho việc của chính phủ, đã bị tổn hại bởi thế lực thù địch của nước ngoài. Thế lực này đã đọc được tất cả email đến và gửi đi của bà Clinton.

Thế lực nước ngoài đó là Trung Quốc, sử dụng một công ty hoạt động ở miền bắc Virginia, The Daily Caller đưa tin. Hãng này trích dẫn một cựu nhân viên tình báo có chuyên môn về các vấn đề an ninh không gian mạng và nhân viên chính phủ - cả hai đều ẩn danh.

Fox News đã xác nhận báo cáo với hai nguồn không xác định “đã được giới thiệu tóm tắt về vấn đề này”, mặc dù vẫn chưa rõ liệu các nguồn đó có khác với nguồn của The Daily Caller hay không.

Tất cả các nguồn đều đồng ý rằng trong khi ICIG đang xem xét các email của bà Clinton, họ đã tìm thấy một đoạn mã trong đó cho thấy một bản sao của hầu như mọi email đều được gửi tới một địa chỉ bên ngoài.

Tuy nhiên, ông Gohmert đã từ chối xác định liệu địa chỉ bên ngoài đó có được kết nối với Trung Quốc hay không, chỉ nói rằng đó là một thế lực thù địch của nước ngoài không liên quan đến Nga.

Cựu nhân viên tình báo cho biết ICIG "đã phát hiện ra sự bất thường vào đầu năm 2015". ICIG đã thông báo cho FBI về vấn đề này trong 3 dịp riêng biệt, theo các nguồn tin của Daily Caller.

‘Công cụ’ ICIG

ICIG có các chuyên gia về phân loại tài liệu nên được yêu cầu giúp Bộ Ngoại giao kiểm tra các email của bà Clinton để biết thông tin được phân loại. Các nhân viên ICIG là "công cụ cho quá trình xem xét", FBI nói.

“Khi [ICIG] điều tra sâu, họ phát hiện trong siêu dữ liệu thực tế - dữ liệu ở đầu và chân trang của tất cả các email - một bản sao, 'bản sao lịch sự' được gửi tới bên thứ ba và bên thứ ba đó là một công ty đại chúng Trung Quốc được biết đến có liên quan đến việc thu thập tình báo cho Trung Quốc”, cựu viên chức tình báo nói.

Nhưng ông nói ông không thể tiết lộ tên của công ty. “Có những dấu hiệu cho thấy có những 'cắt bỏ' khác có liên quan. Tôi sẽ gặp rất nhiều rắc rối nếu tôi nói cho bạn cái tên đó”, ông nói.

[caption id="attachment_927549" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Ông Charles McCullough III, Tổng thanh tra ICIG. (Ảnh: Alex Wong/Getty Images)[/caption]

FBI đã nói trong một câu trả lời cho câu chuyện của The Daily Caller rằng họ không tìm thấy bằng chứng cho thấy máy chủ của Clinton đã bị vi phạm, được nhấn mạnh bởi một phản ứng từ một phát ngôn viên của Clinton. Nhưng FBI trước đó thừa nhận ai đó có thể đã vi phạm các máy chủ và bao gồm các bài hát của mình.

Vào năm 2016, Giám đốc FBI James Comey viết trong một tài liệu nội bộ rằng “có khả năng các ‘diễn viên thù địch’ đã có quyền truy cập vào tài khoản email cá nhân của Bộ trưởng Clinton”.

Trong khi đó, người phụ trách việc điều tra email bà Clinton, ông Peter Strzok, gọi đánh giá của ông Comey là “quá mạnh mẽ”. Ông lưu ý “một người nước ngoài tinh vi có thể đã biết máy chủ email riêng [của bà Clinton], và có đủ trình độ để không để lại dấu vết nếu có truy cập vào".

Ông Strzok sau đó bị sa thải vì gửi tin nhắn cho đồng nghiệp và tình nhân Lisa Page, nói ông sẵn sàng sử dụng quyền hạn chính thức của mình chống lại ứng cử viên Donald Trump trong cuộc chạy đua tổng thống với bà Clinton.

FBI và Bộ Tư pháp bị mất tín nhiệm

Tổng thống Trump đã bình luận về những cáo buộc trên Twitter vào ngày 29/8: “Email của Hillary Clinton, nhiều trong số đó là thông tin được phân loại [mật], đã bị Trung Quốc tấn công. Tiếp theo FBI & Bộ Tư pháp phải có động thái tốt hơn, hoặc, sau tất cả các sai lầm khác của họ (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Trang, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier vv), sự tín nhiệm của họ sẽ mãi mãi không còn!”.

Trong một bài đăng Twitter khác, ông nói: “Trung Quốc đã tấn công vào máy chủ email riêng của Hillary Clinton. Họ có chắc đó không phải là Nga (chỉ đùa thôi)? Thế tại sao FBI và Bộ Tư pháp vẫn [được cho là] đúng? Trên thực tế, một câu chuyện rất lớn. Nhiều thông tin được phân loại!”.

Phát ngôn viên Bộ Ngoại giao Trung Quốc, ông Hua Chunying đã né tránh câu hỏi liên quan đến cáo buộc này.

“Trung Quốc là một người bảo vệ trung thành của an ninh mạng. Chúng tôi kiên quyết phản đối và chông lại mọi hình thức tấn công internet và ăn cắp bí mật”, bà nói.

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The ties between Canadians and Folkestone go back to the First World War. A popular image was of a soldier holding a rifle with a bayonet, advancing in front of the Union Jack with the assurance: “Don’t be Alarmed, the Canadians are on guard at Folkestone”. The impression made upon the populace and the institutional psyche of the region became so strong that even to this day on every Canada Day the children of Folkestone attend to the graves of the Canadians buried at a local military cemetery by placing Canadian flags at each headstone.

A youngster rememebrs a Canadian soldier during the special service at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. Source: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/poignant-ceremony-remembers-canadian-soldie-a104215/

The thoughts and feelings of the men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force have been documented in letters and many of the members of the 18th Battalion had family close at hand which led to problems with soldiers being absent without leave. One of the methods to keep the soldiers busy when not actively training was to encourage their participation in sports. These events would engage a small number of active participants in the units competing in the matches, but they would occupy the soldiers of the units as the members of each participating unit would make ready audiences for these events.

Baseball was one such activity. It used a minimum of equipment and allowed for many people to watch the games. Baseball also had the attraction for the general-public of the Folkestone area of being a new and unique sporting event. A sport decidedly new-world and American in character, but somewhat familiar to the English with their knowledge of the game of rounders.

The 18th Battalion participated in baseball and many instances of baseball games and tournaments are recorded in the War Diaries, but the activities of the Battalion with sport of all kinds during its training in England are, sadly, bereft of detail. The War Diaries relate in brief detail the training process of the Battalion that the recent discovery of a news article relating the participation of the Battalion in a baseball match against the 2nd Divisional Supply Column brings the social and physical life of the soldiers to our attention. Their days were not made up of constant training, though a survey of the appendices of Battalion’s War Diary indicate:

Note that the day of a soldier of the 18th Battalion starts at 6.30 AM with a half-hour of “squad drill” and proceeds a-pace with 15 of May involving four hours of entrenching and the 22nd five hours of the entrenching.

But, after 5:00 PM the Battalion was free to participate in sport and this is, most likely, when the baseball match against the 2nd Divisional Supply Column took place.

CANADIAN BASEBALL.

Another Canadian baseball match was played at the Folkestone Cricket Ground on Saturday[i] afternoon, between the 2nd Divisional Supply Column and the 18th Battalion Infantry. The game was watched by a good crowd of spectators, and each successful stroke met with enthusiastic applause from the many Canadians present.

The 18th Battalion won by 12 runs to 9, but the 2nd Divisional Supply Column played a splendid game, and were well on the way to equalizing the score at the conclusion, having scored well in the latter part of the play. The 18th Battalion had excellent pitching abilities.

Teams:–

18th Battalion: Smith[ii], Anderson[iii], Knox[iv], Jefferies[v], Dillon[vi], Huck[vii], Marks[viii], Garside[ix], and Peterborough[x].

2nd Divisional Supply Column: Libby, Coapman, King, Brown, Bennett, Robinson, Kelly, Gallagher, McCullough, and Kearn.

The play throughout was very spirited, and many fine catches were witnessed. At the beginning of the game the 18th scored rapidly, and the position got as far as 9 – 5. When the 2nd got their next point the 18th was still ahead. It was, however, here that the 2nd began to forge ahead, and before very long they had brought their runs up to nine, where their score stood at the close.

The weather was admirable for the match. Baseball, which was a form of sport almost unknown in Folkestone before the coming of the Canadians, has become quite a popular game, and there are more and more spectators at each match.

Source: Folkestone Herald. May 22, 1915. Page 8. Courtesy of Folkestone Baseball Chronicle Facebook Group (Andrew Taylor).

The story relates the essentials of the match. The 18th Battalion leads, there is a tie, end then the 18th Battalion prevails. Many Canadian soldiers are in attendance at each “stroke” there is “enthusiastic applause”. The writer, obviously new to describing a baseball game, does a concise summary of the game and, as time has passed offers to a modern reader some real gems of information and context.

Not only is the author’s familiarity of baseball incomplete, the descriptions of the contest are apt and give the event a flavour tinged in the times of a reporter about the beat of his community reporting on an event. The story offers something, now, much more important. It places specific men o the 18th Battalion at a specific place, time, and activity and allows us to see their lives as much more than simply soldiers. They are active men, pursuing sport after a very heavy day of training. That, after five-hours of trench digging, let alone marching from West Sandling to Tolsford Hill to dig these trenches, the soldiers return, most likely change from some sort of work fatigue uninform into clean clothes to play baseball.

How these men are connected will remain unknown. Where they members of the same Platoon or Squad. Of where they simply the first to volunteer to play against another team. Could the Battalion, through an enterprising officer, had a formal training and practice regime for baseball?

Connected they are. Their names are in black and white and a simple review of the Nominal Roll, April 1915 allows their identity to be determined with some certainty. Of the men identified only Jeffries identifies as British born. All the other identified men are Canadian born. They all range in age from 18 to 27-years old. They share an interest in baseball. Private Jeffries, our Englishman, served two years with a Yorkshire Regiment. Perhaps he was exposed to playing rounders during that service drawing him to participating in baseball.

We can now picture those young men playing during “admirable” day. The soft hit of a ball making contact of the bat as Private Garside hits a grounder towards third base and him sprinting hard towards first, hoping that the immutable physics of a caught and thrown ball will not make him out. That he will run past the bag and make a base hit and turn and smile to a friend along the baseline as he is cheered on. Other men, in civilian clothes, stand beside the raucous Canadians as they cheer on their teams so far from home.

This article, simply entitled CANADIAN BASEBALL, captures moments in time specific to the men of the 18th Battalion. They are identified. They are made real. They are our heritage and we can now understand them better.

[i] The exact date of the game mentioned in the article is unknown. The paper was published on a Saturday – May 22, 1915 – so it is possible the paper is relating to a game played on that date or the Saturday prior to the paper’s publication – May 15, 1915. The 18th Battalion War Diary for April and May 1915 are not help in determining the date. Further, there are no war diaries for the 2nd Divisional War Diary for May 1915.

[ii] This soldier’s identity cannot be determined as there were fourteen privates with the surname “Smith” in the April 1915 Nominal Roll.

[iii] This soldier’s identity cannot be determined as there were four privates with the surname “Anderson” in the April 1915 Nominal Roll.

[iv] MacDonald, John Knox:  Service no. 53821 (Military Medal).

[v] Jefferies, Arthur:  Service no. 54129. He was killed in action at the Somme on September 15, 1916.

[vi] Dillon, Basil:  Service no. 53790.

[vii] Huck, Norman:  Service no. 54021.

[viii] Marks, William Charles:  Service no. 53832.

[ix] Garside, Ernest Albert:  Service no. 53676. He was killed in action the day after Private Arthur Jefferies, at the Somme.

[x] This soldier’s name is miss-spelled. Puterbaugh, Alfred Frederick:  Service no. 53378. He was shot in the head December 24, 1916 and succumbed to those wounds on July 30, 1917.

The ties between Canadians and Folkestone go back to the First World War. A popular image was of a soldier holding a rifle with a bayonet, advancing in front of the Union Jack with the assurance: “Don’t be Alarmed, the Canadians are on guard at Folkestone”.

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Album of the Year: “24K Magic” — Bruno Mars

Record of the Year: “24K Magic” — Bruno Mars

Song of the Year: “That’s What I Like” — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus and Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist: Alessia Cara

Best Pop Solo Performance: “Shape of You” — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Feel It Still” — Portugal. The Man

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: “Tony Bennett Celebrates 90” — Various Artists; Dae Bennett, producer

Best Pop Vocal Album: “÷” — Ed Sheeran

Best Dance Recording: “Tonite” — LCD Soundsystem

Best Dance/Electronic Album: “3-D The Catalogue” — Kraftwerk

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: “Prototype” — Jeff Lorber Fusion

Best Rock Performance: “You Want It Darker” — Leonard Cohen

Best Metal Performance: “Sultan’s Curse” — Mastodon

Best Rock Song: “Run” — Foo Fighters, songwriters

Best Rock Album: “A Deeper Understanding” — The War on Drugs

Best Alternative Music Album: “Sleep Well Beast” — The National

Best R&B Performance: “That’s What I Like” — Bruno Mars

Best Traditional R&B Performance: “Redbone” — Childish Gambino

Best R&B Song: “That’s What I Like” — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus and Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best Urban Contemporary Album: “Starboy” — The Weeknd

Best R&B Album: “24K Magic” — Bruno Mars

Best Rap Performance: “HUMBLE.” — Kendrick Lamar

Best Rap/Sung Performance: “LOYALTY.” — Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna

Best Rap Song: “HUMBLE.” — K. Duckworth, Asheton Hogan and M. Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)

Best Rap Album: “DAMN.” — Kendrick Lamar

Best Country Solo Performance: “Either Way” — Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “Better Man” — Little Big Town

Best Country Song: “Broken Halos” — Mike Henderson and Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)

Best Country Album: “From A Room: Volume 1” — Chris Stapleton

Best New Age Album: “Dancing on Water” — Peter Kater

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Miles Beyond” — John McLaughlin, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album: “Dreams and Daggers” — Cécile McLorin Salvant

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: “Rebirth” — Billy Childs

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: “Bringin’ It” — Christian McBride Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album: “Jazz Tango” — Pablo Ziegler Trio

Best Gospel Performance/Song: “Never Have to Be Alone” — CeCe Winans; Dwan Hill & Alvin Love III, songwriters

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: “What a Beautiful Name” — Hillsong Worship; Ben Fielding & Brooke Ligertwood, songwriters

Best Gospel Album: “Let Them Fall in Love” — CeCe Winans

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: “Chain Breaker” — Zach Williams

Best Roots Gospel Album: “Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope” — Reba McEntire

Best Latin Pop Album: “El Dorado” — Shakira

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: “Residente” — Residente

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): “Arriero Somos Versiones Acústicas” — Aida Cuevas

Best Tropical Latin Album: “Salsa Big Band” — Rubén Blades con Roberto Delgado y Orquesta

Best American Roots Performance: “Killer Diller Blues” — Alabama Shakes

Best American Roots Song: “If We Were Vampires” — Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit)

Best Americana Album: “The Nashville Sound” — Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Best Bluegrass Album: tie, “Laws of Gravity” — The Infamous Stringdusters and “All the Rage — In Concert Volume One” — Rhonda Vincent and the Rage

Best Traditional Blues Album: “Blue & Lonesome” — The Rolling Stones

Best Contemporary Blues Album: “TajMo” — Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’

Best Folk Album: “Mental Illness” — Aimee Mann

Best Regional Roots Music Album: “Kalenda” — Lost Bayou Ramblers

Best Reggae Album: “Stony Hill” — Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley

Best World Music Album: “Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration” — Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Children’s Album: “Feel What U Feel” — Lisa Loeb

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books and Storytelling): “The Princess Diarist” — Carrie Fisher

Best Comedy Album: “The Age of Spin/Deep in the Heart of Texas” — Dave Chappelle

Best Musical Theater Album: “Dear Evan Hansen” — Ben Platt, principal soloist; Alex Lacamoire, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, producers; Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, composers/lyricists (original Broadway cast recording)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: “La La Land” — Various Artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: “La La Land” — Justin Hurwitz, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media: “How Far I’ll Go” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli’i Cravalho)

Best Instrumental Composition: “Three Revolutions” — Arturo O’Farrill, composer (Arturo O’Farrill and Chucho Valdés)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: “Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra From ‘Catch Me If You Can’” — John Williams, arranger (John Williams)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “Putin” — Randy Newman, arranger (Randy Newman)

Best Recording Package: tie, “Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition)” — Sasha Barr, Ed Steed and Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) and “El Orisha de la Rosa” — Claudio Roncoli and Cactus Taller, art directors (Magín Díaz)

Best Boxed or Special Limited-Edition Package: “The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition” — Lawrence Azerrad, Timothy Daly and David Pescovitz, art directors (Various Artists)

Best Album Notes: “Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings” — Lynell George, writer (Otis Redding)

Best Historical Album: “Leonard Bernstein — The Composer” — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner and Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: “24K Magic” — Serban Ghenea, John Hanes and Charles Moniz, engineers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer (Bruno Mars)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Greg Kurstin

Best Remixed Recording: “You Move (Latroit Remix)” — Dennis White, remixer (Depeche Mode)

Best Surround Sound Album: “Early Americans” — Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Jim Anderson and Jane Ira Bloom, surround producers (Jane Ira Bloom)

Best Engineered Album, Classical: “Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio” — Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost

Best Orchestral Performance: “Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio” — Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording: “Berg: Wozzeck” — Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms and Roman Trekel; Hans Graf and Brad Sayles, producers (Houston Symphony; Chorus of Students and Alumni, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University and Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus)

Best Choral Performance: “Bryars: The Fifth Century” — Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet and The Crossing)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: “Death & the Maiden” — Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Best Classical Instrumental Solo: “Transcendental” — Daniil Trifonov

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: “Crazy Girl Crazy” — Barbara Hannigan (Ludwig Orchestra)

Best Classical Compendium: “Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto” — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: “Viola Concerto” — Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero and Nashville Symphony)

Best Music Video: “HUMBLE.” — Kendrick Lamar

Best Music Film: “The Defiant Ones” — Various Artists

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Former Intel IG: Clinton Camp Coordinated with State and Dems to Push Back Against Email Probe

An ex-intelligence watchdog says that from the very start of the Clinton email investigation, Hillary Clinton’s campaign coordinated with the State Department and Democrats on Capitol Hill to push back against him with threats and intimidation. “There was personal blowback. Personal blowback to me, to my family, to my office,” General Charles McCullough III, former inspector general for the…

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Obama Insider Bombshell: “Coordinated Strategy,” Leading Dems, State Dept. And FBI Involved

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Obama Insider Bombshell: “Coordinated Strategy,” Leading Dems, State Dept. And FBI Involved

General Charles McCullough III served under President Obama, yet was personally attacked by Hillary Clinton. Another controversial Clinton scandal has been revealed, showing more unpresidential behavior from the crooked former First Family. Hillary Clinton personally attacked an Intelligence......